The night before the main Grand Jury, which was around April, I
finally saw the two letters for the first time. They were actually
a relief, because they were so foolish and grossly ungrammatical
that it was obviously not my style. The first letter was also a
very unsubtle attempt to look like me, so that it became
immediately obvious that someone was trying to implicate me, either
to get me, or send Scientology bomb threats on their own without
any risk to themselves by trying to make it look like my doing. (1)

The first letter started "these damned books they are closing in
on me" immediately establishing that the person who wrote that was
either someone writing books, or someone with wall-to-wall
bookcases in their apartment, which was also true about me. It also
said "I hurt -- my operation" and this planted the first seeds of
suspicion -- later to become an obsession -- about Nibs (L. Ron
Hubbard Jr.) And again there was that wrong reference to me that
had appeared in the smear letter to the building "my tongue is
swollen."

The second letter, allegedly received Dec. 13th (although it
mysteriously never went through the mails, and suspiciously the
only fingerprints on the envelope were Meisler's we were later to
learn) planted the first seeds of suspicion about my close friend
Bob Kaufman, who had also written an anti- scientology book My
lawyers were later to become highly suspicious of him, especially
because he had had a nervous breakdown after being in scientology
and had been institutionalized. The letter sounded like him (2) but
this one sounded "more like Meisler, because it said that "Hitler -
Hubbard - Meisler must be destroyed." (I felt that the only person
foolish enough to put 'Meisler in with Hitler, or with his
counterpart, Hubbard, had to be Meisler himself

[[Footnotes:]]

(1) Gordon [[ the U.S. Prosecutor against me on this case]]*
{paid me the dubious compliment of saying he thought I did it
because the letters were so stupid that they must have been written
by an intelligent person, and he didn't think Meisler was too
bright. Gordon also had some other things to say to my lawyers that
added to my sense of frustration and rage over what was going on.
When my lawyers pointed out that I had no motive to send bomb
threats since I was then doing extremely well against Meisler and
Sci in my NY suit, [[line missing which I think said "Gordon said
that people who send bomb threats are crazy so they"]] don't need
any motive. When we pointed out that I would hardly write a letter
to a building I had just moved into to try to get myself kicked
out, and because of the "swollen tongue" the two seemed to be
written by the same person Gordon told my lawyers that people who
send bomb threats are disturbed and therefore might do anything.
When we later pointed out that I would never send anonymous letter
to my parents to hurt them, especially one that said I wasn't a
good writer when they were supporting me, we got the same argument.

The government also thought they were brilliant in concluding
that the writer of the letters was Jewish. But they kept ignoring
my lawyers when they pointed out that so was Meisler -- and if it
was a frameup of me, it would be made to look like a Jewish person.

(2) The letter sounded like Kaufman because it started off
"James" and Bob was the only one to call Jim Meisler "James." It
also referred to "a exploding volcano" which is an important image
in Scientology, and was discussed in Bob Kaufman's book. But I
didn't think Bob would say "a exploding," and anyway, he's very
bright and surely knew that volcanos erupt and not explode.

[[Prosecutors often go after cases they think will bring them
publicity, even if they have evidence that the person is
innocent. After the FBI raided Scientology and found the
documents about me, and the story of the frame-up appeared in
the newspapers, a friend of mine, Dr. Stephen Barrett, who is
very active in anti-quack areas--- indeed, he has an
interesting web site up in this area now--- sent the
prosecutor, John Gordon the newsstories about the frame-up. and
wrote him the following:)

7/5/78

Dear Mr. Gordon:

Our records indicate you were the prosecuting attorney in the
criminal case against Paulette Cooper, one of the few people in
America who had the courage to speak out against Scientology.

We assume you will be hearing more about this matter as it
unfolds. Meanwhile, you should be thoroughly ashamed of yourself.